Reception: texts, readers, audiences, history
Table of Contents
Essay:
- Ildiko Olasz and M. Genevieve West, “Follow the Reader: New Views and Inquiries in Reception Studies”
Reviews:
- Amaya, Hector. Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War. Urbana: U. of Illinois P, 2010. Review by Kimberly A. Nance
- Anderson, Thomas P., and Ryan Netzley, eds. Acts of Reading: Interpretation, Reading Practices, and the Idea of the Book in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2009. Review by Joseph Sullivan
- Blair, Amy L. Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2012. Review by Barbara Ryan
- Foreman, P. Gabrielle. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2009. Review by Jeremy Wells
- Hochman, Barbara. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2011. Review by Charles Johanningsmeier
- John, Juliet. Dickens and Mass Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. and McParland, Robert. Charles Dickens’s American Audience. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010. Review by Jennifer Phegley
- Johnson, William A. Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. New York: Oxford UP, 2010. Review by Ika Willis
- Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 2011. Review by John Hellmann
- Razlogova, Elena. The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2011. Review by Allison Fisher
- Roberts, Gillian. Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Review by Molly Abel Travis
- Sankara, Edgard. Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2011. Review by Olivier J. Tchouaffe
- Satterwhite, Emily. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2011. Review by Philip Goldstein
- Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2011. Review by Rhiannon Bury
- Shohet, Lauren. Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Review by Michael L. Donnelly
- Sicherman, Barbara. Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010. Review by Rhonda Pettit
- Striphas, Ted. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. New York: Columbia UP, 2009. Review by Emily Satterwhite
- Sweeney, Megan. Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010. Review by Yung-Sing Wu
- Towheed, Shafquat, Rosiland Crone, and Katie Halsey, eds. The History of Reading. London: Routledge, 2011. Review by Patrocinio Schweickart
- Wilkes, Joanne. Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Review by Charlotte Templin
- Machor, James. Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Review by Gillian Silverman.
Additional New Books in Audience and Reception Studies
Contributors:
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Ildiko Olasz is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University. She has conducted interdisciplinary studies of Victorian book history and reception, and her recent project turns to William Makepeace Thackeray’s early work as a writer and illustrator to examine the factors that brought about the unique dynamics in his contemporary reception.
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M. Genevieve West is Professor of English at Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture (UP of Florida, 2005). She is currently working on several projects related to Hurston’s short fiction and essays.